Families Channel Grief Toward Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Skepticism of Official Investigation Runs Deep as Families Struggle to Accept Disappearance

In Kuala Lumpur, Sarah Bajc is still pushing to find out what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which left for Beijing more than nine months ago with her partner Philip Wood on board. Photo: Reuters.

KUALA LUMPUR—Sarah Bajc is holding on to her mementos of life with Philip Wood, an American executive who took off on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 more than nine months ago and never came home.

They include a gold-painted Agamemnon mask, adorned with a knit hat from Mr. Wood’s childhood, and a photo of the trim 51-year-old Texan on a trip in Thailand, shot in the low light of a mountain shrine where they once sheltered during a typhoon warning.